My mum has lost "her" cat. She is convinced her neigbour has drowned/shot/poisoned/bludgeoned the thing because it used to stalk their fish.
So i have had my mother flipping between floods of tears (that i can deal with)and ranting and raving that she is going to poison their fish (i cant garuntee that she actually wouldnt you know!). She is being totally irrational. Instead of asking people to look in sheds etc she is on the warpath - its almos like she doesn't want the cat to come back.
I feel sorry for my mum, shes a widow and probably lonely, but we see her a lot, she "helps" us out a lot etc.
My sympathy has reached its limits for two reasons. Firstly, she was on my doorstep this morning when i was taking DD to school, ranting the whole walk to school and then saying to DD that she would pick her up, at which point DDs face dropped and she clung to me like a limpet until i persuaded her that mummy would be there (i had an appointment but was prepared to break it as DD still settling into school, not a big deal). So now she has upset DD - not happy.
The best bit though IT ISNT EVEN HER CAT!!! she stole the sodding creature because she decided it wasnt being looked after properly - its owner was in and out of hospital and her neighbour was feeding the cat - so it lived out most of the time, um, its a cat, they do that - i had two cats who came home for their food and never came in my house (i think it must be haunted - different story). I was so angry with her, then THAN, one day we were down the town and a man stopped and asked my mum if she knew what had happened to the cat as the owner was upset about it - she had the gall to stand there and lie!! It was obvious the guy knew she had taken it and was trying to make her feel bad and return the cat. how tempted was i to out her - i coudlnt she would never speak to me again (dont tempt me) and im an only child, she is not in good health and if i dont look out for her no one will.
So am i being unreasonable for actually thinking, what goes around comes around and the cat has probably taken itself home anyway!!